Kermit Welch

Kermit Welch plays many instruments & performs as a soloist, chamber musician & orchestral player. This also includes various types of combos & bands. As a clarinetist/vocalist in his trio with guitar or banjo & string bass, Mr. Welch has had considerable success. He performed as "Mr. Clarinet" at a Pasadena Restaurant for several months; was a strolling musician at the Whale & Ale for 7 years; performed in a Dixieland Band at Disneyland, & he was a street musician with his Buskers Trio. Mr. Welch owns 14 different sized clarinets & he is accomplished on the sopranino, soprano, G mezzo, & bass clarinets. As a saxophonist, Mr. Welch has performed with many big bands, including a few years with the Havin’ Fun Band at Alpine Village as jazz tenor, & he was lead alto in the Westside Jazz Ensemble, for many dance shows. Mr. Welch is a popular substitute for many bands on baritone saxophone & for 7 years he played the rare sopranino saxophone in Vintage Brass, which recently disbanded due to the leader’s illness. In his “stable” of saxophones is a quite small (12 inches high) sopranino, saxcello, conn-o-sax, straight alto, straight tenor, & bass saxophone. Few saxophonists perform on the “C Melody” saxophone, the choice of saxophonists today. The audience loves the way Mr. Welch plays the old tunes on these odd saxophones which have unusual shapes & sounds - all which create a nice visual effect. Flute is always popular & Mr. Welch performs on both metal & wood C flute, plus piccolo. An cctavian is a small instrument that resembles the butt end of a bassoon, called an octavian. It produces a Dixieland or oriental sound. But for those Hawaiian songs, ballads, pop, comic, & children's tunes, Mr. Welch choses the ukulele as the perfect accompanying instrument! Oh, by the way, Mr. Welch taught in the school system for many years, quite successfully, & he turned out many fine students, too numerous to mention!! Mr. Kermit Welch may be reached at: (310) 378-0333 welchmusic@aol.com